“Long Island Pledge” no longer in development at Apple TV, sources say Variety.
The series adaptation of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s novel is expected to find a new home. “Long Island Compromise” had not yet received a series order from Apple, and it is not unusual for projects to fall out of development.
Apple TV and Brodesser-Akner representatives declined to comment.
Ahead of its publication in July 2024, “Long Island Compromise” sparked a bidding war in Hollywood, with several studios seeking a film adaptation of the novel, a follow-up to Brodesser-Akner’s best-selling debut novel, “Fleishman Is in Trouble.” That book was adapted into a 2022 miniseries on Hulu, for which Brodesser-Akner wrote the script and was nominated for an Emmy.
“Long Island Compromise” takes place decades after a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher was kidnapped from his home on Long Island and held for ransom. He returns after a week and his family continues with their lives. But almost 40 years later, when the family is reunited, it becomes clear that no one has completely moved on from the traumatic incident.
According to the synopsis, the book covers the entire history of the Fletcher family and confronts the pillars of American Jewish life: “tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, fear of the future, old wives’ tales, the evil eye, survival, security, ambition, achievement, boredom, orgies, dybbuks, inheritance, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta blockers and love, mostly tacit, and the shared experience that unites a family forever.
Brodesser-Akner was set to write the TV show “Long Island Compromise,” and executive produce with Richard Plepler through his Eden Productions, which signed an exclusive five-year deal with Apple TV in January 2020, as well as Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly (of Timberman/Beverly Productions) and Susannah Grant.
